On Tuesday 04 January 2005 20:05, Vlad.Popa AT sbg.ac DOT at wrote:
>Hi everybody!
>
>We have recently rented a root server in germany and installed 
> debian sarge on it. A ftp share as large as the install HD is
> included in the server package accessable authenticated.
>
>My question is:  Is  it possible at the time now to write the amanda
> backup directly onto the ftp share (AKA as holding disk)? Are there
> any options (usermount programs) to mount the ftp share as a
> "virtual" holding disk and has this whole procedure ever been
> executed successfully and documented?
>
>I'd like  to use this kind of  "tapes"...
>
>Greeting from Austria
>
>Vlad Popa

If that share is mountable with the std mount command, I believe it 
can work as a vtapes like repository.

However, if its to be mounted as a samba share, probably not, mainly 
because samba throws away so much information about the attributes of 
a file.

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